Example sentences of "['s] [noun sg] was [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Orchardson 's contract was really with the finance company involved with the deal , Sabre Rentals Ltd . |
| 2 | On 30 minutes , Farnham 's defence was all over the place at a free-kick and the ball fell at a perfect height to an unmarked Lamboll who struck an unstoppable volley past Cann . |
| 3 | Elizabeth 's upbringing was certainly at the other end of the spectrum from Mary 's . |
| 4 | But Pound with his invaluable naïveté really believed that the United States was ‘ a land of opportunity ’ ; that his nation 's glory was all in the future , and would be achieved if only Americans would sort out those achievements of European culture ( and of non-European cultures also ) which were worth their emulating and trying to surpass . |
| 5 | Emily 's mind was partly on the enjoyable walk she had taken with Heinrich , who had unexpectedly proved a most delightful companion during the week ; partly on the bright green foulard dress she had seen on sale at Bobby 's in Margate yesterday when they visited the famous menagerie at the Grand Hall by the Sea , and partly it was on the coming evening . |
| 6 | For the moment , however , the Collector 's mind was idly considering the question of food . |
| 7 | Roth 's influence was less as a teacher , there having been during his lifetime much less scope than later for Jewish studies in Britain , than as a writer and lecturer . |
| 8 | Kettler ( 1975 ) builds on his earlier work ( Kettler 1967 ) that explored Mannheim 's sociology of knowledge as a perspective within sociology , by arguing that Mannheim 's work was consistently within a tradition of liberal political theory . |
| 9 | Women were no longer needed in the factories , and the traditional view that a woman 's place was properly in the home and that young children were best cared for by their mothers reasserted itself . |
| 10 | Togetherness meant more than keeping each other company ; it meant that a man 's place was also in the home . |
| 11 | Bryan Thomson 's match was already at the first tee when Patrick strolled up with the bag of clubs over his shoulder . |
| 12 | Chris 's wife was now in a different hospital in Shropshire , and seemed content to stay there . |
| 13 | Artemis 's father was away for a week 's sport in Leicestershire , and apparently it was expected of Artemis that she should be ready and able to go out and ride her new horse side-saddle alongside her father on his return . |
| 14 | Arabella 's toothbrush was still in the mug above the basin . |
| 15 | Unlike Laurie Connell who formed an instant collection in a couple of years , Bond 's collection was still in the making and aimed to be a balanced historical survey . |
| 16 | As Cowley walked towards the slightly hunched figure of Bodie , he was able to see Doyle 's peaceful face , eyes closed , white as a sheet ; a moment later the trolley was behind the closing doors of the lift , and Doyle 's life was now in the hands of others , men skilled in surgery , and in the ways of keeping the tenuous thread of life attached to a dying body . |
| 17 | Cowper 's poem was still under the shadow of Milton 's Paradise Lost , and it is to Coleridge 's credit that he was able to avoid Miltonic diction and write true ‘ conversational ’ poems . |
| 18 | Basil 's concern was always with a sensory response to the world , and was at this level , essentially expressive . |
| 19 | Swindon 's approach was more along the byways , with frequent midfield pauses to check the map or signposts . |
| 20 | To the bassets , Buster 's arrival was rather like the intrusion of an irreverent outsider into an exclusive London club . |
| 21 | The precise nature of the policeman 's duty was explicitly before the court in Coffin v. Smith . |
| 22 | Miguel Rafaelo 's conversation was all about the village surgery , and the clinics he had set up there . |
| 23 | Paul Simpson 's goal was enough for a one-one draw . |
| 24 | In Kufra one policeman ( the senior customs officer ) was a stranger , though he had lived there for some decades ; in Tazarbu nearly all policemen were from one lineage ( Bilal ) , or had married into it ; the senior officer 's son was also in the force , a trainee under his father 's authority . |
| 25 | The distance from his grandmother 's house was just over a mile . |
| 26 | Erm you 'll recall the City Council 's objection was both to the level and the distribution of employment land in North Yorkshire , er in particular as far as it relates to the likely effects on regeneration in West Yorkshire and in Leeds in particular . |
| 27 | She had always understood that Janine 's mother was never off the doorstep , that 's why she never came herself . |
| 28 | Sitting on the tall range , its small legs sticking out over the bright brass rail which acted both as a safety barrier round the hotplates and as a place to hang grubby kitchen towels , the small attendant 's face was almost at the same level as the human 's . |
| 29 | Mr Stott 's workshop was actually on the Roman Wall and every time I cast , or see my rod bend in anger , I am reminded of my beautiful Northumberland home . |
| 30 | While both Steven and Matthew feel their parents ' divorce was ultimately for the good , it has left Steven , at least , with strong reservations about marriage . |